Tricks, Hacks, Super Apps and More
By Albert Chi— Summer is upon us once again and here are some tips and product snippets to help you get back into the swing of things. See links to all at the end of this post under Resources. 1. Let’s begin with Steermouse. It does only one thing, but does it exceedingly well. But first a bit of back story. In 1996, Microsoft introduced a computer mouse with brains, called, appropriately, the Intellimouse. It came in both PC and...
Josef Hoflehner: Images of Frozen History
by Arthur H. Bleich— The penguin had been resting peacefully, face up on the table for nearly a hundred years—a sleeping beauty never to be awakened by a kiss, frozen in time by the sub-zero Antarctic chill in an abandoned, soot-filled explorer’s hut. Josef Hoflehner–one of the world’s renowned fine arts photographers– and his daughter, Katharina, would eventually journey thousands of miles from their native Austria to...
Bill Frakes’ Nebraska: Wide Open Spaces, Classic Faces
By Bill Frakes— [All Images © Bill Frakes] This is home. This is the rural West. This is Nebraska. My first home and likely my last The Nebraska Project is a collection of still photographs, written stories and photographic essays. About a dozen years ago I decided to pull all of the work together into one place. I’ve managed to do that, and the response has been very gratifying with millions of onlineand print views. I spend several...
ProTalk: David Bergman On Using Remote Cameras
By David Bergman— As a traveling concert photographer, I often document tours with the same artist over a period of days, months, and even years. I’m currently on the road with Luke Combs and, while there are unexpected moments to capture every night, the concerts tend to have the same visual look to them. Photographically, it would be easy to fall into a rut and make similar images at every show. To combat this, I regularly...
Thoughts on Wilderness and Repentance. Part 2
By Andrew R. Slaton— I started calling creeks, “cricks” when Mike, a new-found Wyoming-born friend, accompanied me as I drove us around western part of the state when I first arrived here in 2005. Mike taught me everything, nearly; the topography, the flora and fauna—he would have hated me saying “flora and fauna.” I could just imagine him thinking, “You sound like one of those smart people who spent a bunch of money to go to college...
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